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Data recovery question
A friend recently switched from Mac to PC, and made the mistake of somehow wiping his drive because it wasn’t visible in Windows (as it had been formatted in Apple’s own APFS format). He compounded the error by creating a new Apple APFS volume over the top of the original partition in a misguided effort to undo his original mistake. I’ve run several drive-recovery tools, but while they’re able to see the drive’s previous content, none of the files appear to be recoverable, even though no new files have been written to the drive. Why is this so, and is all his data lost?
—Eric L Dumont
This comes down to the fact that most of the files in question have become fragmented over time. When fragmented files are deleted, even though only the first few bytes of the file are overwritten to leave the
